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At Least I’m Upright….

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I think I know why it takes so long to become a doctor. You have to learn a completely different language:

This accessory muscle is located posteromedially, originating from the fascia of the deep posterior compartment at a level posterior to the tibiotalar joint and talus and then extends inferiorly, deep to the flexor retinaculum, posterior and superficial to the traversing tibial nerve and posterior tibial artery within the tarsal tunnel, inserting distally upon the quadratus plantae muscle (axial series 2, Images 6-22, sagittal series 4, images 15-11 and coronal series 7, images 7-10.)

Even after Dr. Moser showed me the MRI images and “explained” it to me, I’m still not sure exactly what the issue is except that it seems to be related to my initial ankle sprain (20 years ago – a bad sprain that took several months to feel better). No pinched anything, no compressed anything, no torn anything and in what was clearly a surprise to the doctor, no arthritis. He did point out what he called some edema – that’s about it. Two co-pays and an MRI to get told my ankle hurts.

Sent home with a brace and a couple of physical therapy appointments. In the meantime, I suppose the fact that there isn’t any arthritis is the good news I’ll try to keep in mind.

Do you have a favorite tongue-twister from childhood?

20 thoughts on “At Least I’m Upright….”

  3. Supercalifragilistic expialidocious! Of course!

    Also, my dad taught me to count to 100 in Japanese when I was quite young. It’s a tongue twister if you go too fast.

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  4. OT: I recognized that Xray immediately – only mine looked quite different 3 months ago and always will. I had three fractures. One was in the fibula (skinny bone on the left) and two were in the bottom part of the tibia (large bone on the right. Now I have a bunch of hardware holding everything together. The fractures should be well healed by now. I am walking much better these days, still not up to my usual speed and still sometimes limp a bit. There is still some swelling and stiffness in the ankle itself which will resolve over time. My right foot finally resembles my left foot. PT is impressed with my progress – I should be, too though I am not a very patient person and want things back to normal NOW.

    Tongue twister? Red leather yellow leather.

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    2. That reminds me of “the long slick yellow leather slab ticket with the blue spanch across it” from Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories.

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  6. gregarious gracious grandmother Greta hands the gavel to grandfather Gurt who gathers a group of greater gravel graders

    i’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this one before. This was a tongue twister that my family came up with on a road trip. It started as a smaller sentence, and we kept adding to it. It actually started with the gravel graders as we passed them on the highway.

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  7. “Betty Batter bought some butter, but, said she, this butters bitter. If it put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. so she bought some better butter and she put the better butter in the bitter batter and made the bitter batter, better.”

    In whatever class this was, we had to say it twice with one breath. I can still do it. 🙂

    Before a show, the college director has the actors do vocal warm ups. He has them do “ipity bippity sippity sap” over and over. I use something I heard Garrison Keillor say years ago: “She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping while amicably welcoming him home.”

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  8. Not exactly a tongue twister, but Mrs. Latch (6th grade) taught us all the “helping verbs” (?) by stringing them together to say really fast, no break between them:

    is/are/was/were/has/have/had/am/be/been/can/could/will/would/shall/should/do/did/done

    She suggested saying them to your dog or other pet, with different inflections or tones of voice… Try it!

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